Title: New Series Dramatizes America's Satanic Elites - "Vanished" 8PM CST Tonight on FOX Source:
Fox URL Source:http://www.fox.com/vanished/ Published:Aug 21, 2006 Author:Who knows? Post Date:2006-08-21 19:52:27 by Arator Ping List:*Restore the Republic*Subscribe to *Restore the Republic* Keywords:Satanists, Rule, Us Views:631 Comments:24
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Brought to you by the arch-Satanist himself, Rupert Murdoch.
VANISHED combines the investigative twists and turns of CSI, the nonstop pace and tension of 24 and the scope of The Da Vinci Code.
The search for a Senator's missing wife unravels one of the nations most prominent families and exposes evidence that could rock the foundations of American society.
Look thataway!
"If theres another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."
The Fox network is totally perverse. Their news is nothing but dramatic fiction. And their dramatic fiction sheds more light on American realities than most "news." Their operations are altogether upside down and backwards.
#4. To: Arator, mehitable, who knows what evil (#2)
Their operations are altogether upside down and backwards.
The Rich People's Union (RPU) ping!
Remember the Israeli spy ring special by Cameron that was never shown? I wonder why Fox even made it.
"If theres another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."
I'm screwed...I haven't hooked up cable yet since moving to Tennexico, so no FOX. Actually, I'm really enjoying it, but the wife isn't going to deal with it much longer...
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
why don't you start one? I'll join, and I'm sure mehitable will.
"If theres another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."
"If theres another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."
Finding Thrills on the Lam (in 'Prison Break') and in the Lap of Luxury (in 'Vanished')
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
"Prison Break" is a real thriller. "Vanished," a new Fox series that follows, is a self-hating thriller.
It tries and tries, but its heart isn't in it. In public "Vanished" does its best to impersonate coldblooded film noir, but privately it locks the bedroom door, puts on a Donna Summer CD and dresses up as Krystle Carrington of "Dynasty."
Nominally "Vanished" could be considered a police procedural because it features a brusque, embittered F.B.I. investigator, Graham Kelton (Gale Harold), who uses the latest advances in fingerprint analysis and is teamed with a more tactful, by-the-book female partner, Lin Mei (Ming-Na from "E.R."). There are many inky-colored shots of Graham staring moodily into the darkness as the pumped-up soundtrack swirls around him, but those "C.S.I."-style atmospherics are not very persuasive.
"Vanished" is most itself when the camera zooms in on sprawling country estates and gorgeous women arching their necks to receive new diamond necklaces. And as soon as Senator Jeffrey Collins of Georgia (John Allen Nelson) lovingly fastens the latest token of his love around the nape of his young bride, Sara (Joanne Kelly), she disappears. Even before the F.B.I. steps in, evidence surfaces to suggest that Sara is not who she seems to be.
As with "Prison Break," which begins its second season tonight just before the premiere of "Vanished," there is a high-level conspiracy looming in the background. But "Prison Break" is an action-adventure series about fugitive convicts. "Vanished" is more of a nighttime soap opera in which wives, ex-wives and mistresses provide most of the adventure and quite a bit of action.
Both Fox series fit smoothly into the mood of the new fall season: every network has its imitation of ABC's hit show, "Lost," including ABC, which this fall is to introduce "The Nine," about nine hostages who bond during a bank robbery. In all these series, a single narrative stretches from episode to episode, circling around flashbacks and cliffhangers. "Vanished" is not even the only series about a missing person; NBC has a new drama, "Kidnapped," about the snatching of the son of a business mogul.
Senator Collins is also a wealthy patrician and very, very important: the license plate on his black limousine says "US1 Senator," and the president of the United States personally calls him at home to seek the senator's support for his nominee to the Supreme Court. Even at a black-tie dinner honoring his wife's charity work, the senator is importuned by lobbyists. "I'll vote as I see fit," he says haughtily.
Graham, however, displays no deference. The first thing he asks the senator after Sara disappears is whether he or his wife is having an affair. (She is summoned to the house phone by a hotel employee and never returns.)
It takes only one flashback to understand why Graham is so grumpy on the job: a previous kidnapping case went south when Graham's superiors ignored his instruction to let him work it alone and botched the rescue.
The other strands of the story are harder to piece together: the senator's daughter has a boyfriend with a secret agenda, and even his son is keeping dark secrets from his father and the police. All of them are under the telephoto- lens scrutiny of a sexy television reporter (Rebecca Gayheart) who keeps an eye on breaking news bulletins even when instructing her cameraman lover how to please her in bed.
There is more sex in the premiere of "Vanished" than there was in the entire first season of "Prison Break," which is perhaps just as well because most of the action took place behind bars in a men's maximum-security prison.
The hero of "Prison Break," Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), did finally manage to escape from prison in the previous season's last episode, taking his brother Lincoln and several other convicts with him. In tonight's season premiere the escapees are together and on the run, except for T-Bag (Robert Knepper), the serial killer, who was left at large on his own and is still loping for his life, clutching his bloody, severed hand. This season, however, the fugitives are being trailed by a smart F.B.I. investigator who figures out how Michael got out in the first place. (He sees the map on Michael's inked torso and puts two and tattoo together.)
"Prison Break" has its share of comic-book histrionics, including a dastardly villain: the president of the United States. But the pursuit of the convicts promises as much drama and suspense as the first season's oft-delayed escape. "Vanished" offers suspense and high-society melodrama, and that isn't so bad either.
PRISON BREAK
Fox, tonight at 8, Eastern and Pacific times; 7, Central time.
Paul T. Scheuring, Matt Olmstead, Kevin Hooks, Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse, Neal Moritz and Brett Ratner, executive producers; Zack Estrin, co-executive producer. An Adelstein-Parouse Production in association with 20th Century Fox Television.
WITH: Dominic Purcell (Lincoln Burrows), Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield), Robin Tunney (Veronica Donovan), Amaury Nolasco (Fernando Sucre), Marshall Allman (L. J. Burrows), Wade Williams (Capt. Brad Bellick), Paul Adelstein (Agent Paul Kellerman), Robert Knepper (T-Bag), Rockmond Dunbar (C-Note), Sarah Wayne Callies (Sara Tancredi) and William Fichtner (Alexander Mahone).
VANISHED
Fox, tonight at 9, Eastern and Pacific times; 8, Central time.
Created by Josh Berman; Mimi Leder, director of pilot; Mr. Berman, Ms. Leder and Paul Redford, executive producers. Produced by 20th Century Fox Television.
WITH: Penelope Ann Miller (Jessica), John Allen Nelson (Senator Jeffrey Collins), Esai Morales (Kyle Tyner), Gale Harold (Graham Kelton), Ming-Na (Agent Lin Mei), Joanne Kelly (Sara Collins), Rebecca Gayheart (Judy Nash).
I think he already has been possessed by one demon too many.
"If theres another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."
Ken Lay has taken his place alongside Elvis Presley in the pantheon of people whose deaths have not been fully believed. In Internet sites and blogs, conspiracy theorists and jokesters have floated the idea that the Enron founder's powerful friends helped him fake his death to escape sentencing in one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history.
Some disbelievers are serious. Others are clearly having fun, such as the creator of a Web site that shows Lay's face inserted Where's Waldo-style into pictures from around the world at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the running of the bulls in Spain and as E.T. on a bike about to fly away from bad guys.
I saw the last 20 minutes of "Vanished" and liked it.
It was reminiscent of last year's "Night Stalker," similar in that the past incident haunted the FBI agent and the sinister hints of a broader conspiracy.
The senator looked like Roger/Jim McGuinn of the Byrds.
The Fox network is totally perverse. Their news is nothing but dramatic fiction. And their dramatic fiction sheds more light on American realities than most "news." Their operations are altogether upside down and backwards.